Bill Bixby, Carl Ballantine, Elvis Presley

Elvis looks sleek and cool in Speedway, a decided improvement over the pasty indifference he displayed in his middle-era range of pictures. The movie itself is standard Presley formula, with th...( read more  read more... )e King again playing a race-car driver, this time in trouble with an IRS agent (Nancy Sinatra) over his taxes. (There's even a production number about taxes. Argggh.) On the plus side, a bunch of scenes are set in the Hangout, a Pulp Fiction-esque diner with booths shaped like cars and lots of dancers doing the frug. Nancy sings a cool-weird Lee Hazlewood tune, "Your Groovy Self," which should have been picked up by the Austin Powers folks. The plot reflects Elvis's real-life penchant for giving money and cars away, although it's mostly predatory manager Bill Bixby who causes the financial problems. As ho-hum as this outing is, you'll probably want one of Elvis's racing-stripe windbreakers after you see it. --Robert Horton

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G, 94 min.

Directed by: Norman Taurog

Release Date: August 1, 2001

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DVD Release Date: August 3, 2004

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  • January 3, 2007
    Elvis was an average actor at best.
  • June 3, 2009
    Some of the better Elvis movie songs. The little kids that they cast in Elvis movies are so adorable. The only thing I have against it is that the ending does not actually resolve things to my satisfaction.
  • December 10, 2008
    no thanks not my kinda thing
  • November 1, 2008
    yet another race movie skip this and see lemans or grand prix
  • September 7, 2008
    GOOD MOVIE WORTH WATCHING
  • July 26, 2008
    yep he was speeding down that track!
  • May 7, 2008
    Elvis Fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • February 17, 2008
    It's Elvis...he's great in everything.
  • January 29, 2008
    Would like to see at some stage.
  • January 14, 2008
    This movie is dumb. He gets in trouble with the IRS cause he isn't paying his bills and the only way he can get the money for it is to win 1st place in a big race. And he doesn't win at the end but they're all happy.

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